Steady rain that will affect many neighborhoods. Steve sosna is tracking the Severe Weather. Steve, we should point out to our viewers just about anywhere you live in our region youre going to get it. Its a combination of factors coming together here to issue this first alert. It will be our entire area receiving this heavy rain, this wind, and possibly even thunderstorms through the day today and even into tonight. So its a Long Duration event. These wachs of rain will come through. Will be hetchy at times. Some isolated storms and then the other element will be the wind picking up tonight and through the day tomorrow. Thats when winds could gust upwards of 50 miles per hour. Overcast and rainy. Thats the theme of the morning in wilmington, delaware, where we have an overcast sky. Temperatures are in the 60s. Breaking it down enabled by neighborhood with the rain, we have the rain in the northern and western suburbs, montgomery, bucks, further to the south were seeing the rain down in
Closure on ia 92 i235 mlk first on 13. This morning central iowa is drenched to the core after a weekend of wet weather. And the record rainfall is causing des moines rivers to push their banks. The des moines river. At southeast 6th street. Currently sits at flood stage. At 24 feet. Its expected to crest early wednesday morning at nearly 26 feet. You can expect moderate the area. The raccoon river. At fleur drive. Is sitting right at its flood stage. Its at 13 feet. And will likely crest at more than 16 feet. On wednesday morning. Drivers are already noticing the effects of moderate flooding in that area. George flagg parkway. From southwest 30th street to park avenue. Is closed. No word yet on when it will reopen. The rain is also dampening a holiday tradition for many metro families. I certainly have personally been involved in a number of floods in december and january and february. But theyre ice related, not rain related. Jolly holiday lights has closed for the season. The annual
I235 valley west i35 oralabor first on 13. The first vote of 2016 is finally upon us. Today the nation turns its focus to iowa to see who iowans want in the oval office. Now just about 12 hours out from the caucus, we have Team Coverage this morning. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live in Capitol Square where media is already gathering. But first, well go to megan reuther, who is live at west end salvage we went to smittys, zombie and jethros, we have the folks from pullmans coming from iowa city and the notes lets take a look at our coverage for the day. Here are the highlights but we will follow each candidate. Lets start with dave price. He will in the spot i am standing in right now. Onto, donald trump he will be at the sheridan in West Des Moines with sonya hetisuhen. Right behind him in the polls is ted cruz and he will be at the fairgrounds and Stephanie Moore will be giving us the lastest from his camp. On the dems side, Hilary Clinton will be at drake, in the olsted center. Lynn m